Welcome
to my "New and Special" page.A page where I present to you New
Acquisitions and particularly Remarkable PiecesAnd they come from all over the planet.
Some are the results of trades with the Museum of Rio de Janeiro, with Arizona State
University,
with Russian colleagues, or simply from Private Collectors!.

Some Exceptional Pieces that were in my room in Tucson, but you are
still available: A huge slice of Pena Blanca I just
acquired, a big chunk of Bouvante, a slice of Nakhla,.....
And a whole assortment of Murchison pieces, from 0.71g to 13.34g, all sizes, all shapes, a
few with a bit of crust, just ask.

Murchison: Probably
the most studied of all carbonaceous meteorites, was found to contain some amino-acids, no
collection is complete without it, but it is getting scarce. Fell in Australia on
September 28, 1969. Nice assortment of fragments and slices, from 0.71g to 13.34g, a few
even have a tiny bit of crust.

Oroville
Medium Octahedrite IIIAB. One mass of 24.5kilos was found in 1893 and was
kept whole in the Academy Building in San Francisco. The building was destroyed by the Big
Earthquake, and fire, of 1906, but the meteorite was recovered later in the rubbles, only
a bit blackened on one side.

Pena Blanca
Spring: The famous Aubrite that fell in a water hole on a ranch in southern
Texas, and was promptly fished out by the ranch-hands eating lunch near-by. Large part
slice with crust and very short list of owners: Robert Haag, Jim Schwade, Blaine Reed, me.
103g.

Fukang: A
slice of another large pallasite. This one was found in 2000 in Xinjiang (China), and did
weigh nearly 1 ton when found. Highly prized by collectors because of its large crystals
of olivine. Part slice, 43.5g

Tafassasset:
Very unusal meteorite, a Metachondrite CR6, with lots of metal. This thick
part-slice was cut from the mass in Alain Carion's collection, a mass was survived the
carjacking and fire. One side is still clearly burned. 91.41g

Ivory Coast
Tektite: Those are truly extremely
rare as less than 100 had been previously know. Alain Carion was very lucky. Please go to "http://www.meteorite-times.com/tektite-month/ivory-coast-tektites" to read about this amazing discovery. I have
several others, just ask if you would like to see a different one.

TRADE with the Museum of
Rio de Janeiro: I had the pleasure of a return visit by Dr. Mary-Elizabeth
Zucolotto, Curator of the Meteorite Collection of the Museum of Natural History in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. She had brought with her just a few pieces and we managed to do another
trade (I still do not speak Portuguese).All those pieces were prepared and in some cases repaired in Brazil.

Sao Joao
Nepomuceno: The very first mass of Sao Joao Nepomuceno was found
before 1960 in Minas Gerais, an area of Brazil that has produced many meteorites. Later a
local farmer was intrigued when a stone would not break under the wheels of his cart like
all the other rocks, eventually he stopped and picked the rock, it was no stone it was
iron and he quickly realized that it was just like that other iron that had been found
just a few miles away. He kept it for himself but eventually the mayor of the village
asked him to show it to a visiting engineer, who confirmed that it was a piece of the Sao
Joao Nepomuceno meteorite, a third fragment was eventually found near-by, bringing the
total weight to about 16kg. Most of it is now in the Museum of Natural History in Rio de
Janeiro. It was been studied extensively and found to be similar to only one other
meteorite, Steinbach, found in Germany in 1724; both are IVA-anomalous, iron meteorites
very rich in pyroxene-tridymite inclusions.

ASU "left-over"
Irons: When I was at
Arizona State University in October 2011, I spotted a bunch of small containers with
pieces of iron meteorites in them, so I asked and was told that every now and then a chunk
is cut off a large mass for lab. work, then some is used in the lab, and some is
left-overs, and Yes, those were all "left-overs"! But what
left-overs!!! What names!!! Ashfork, Gressk, Monahans, Silver Bell, Weaver
Mountain......Total: over 20 ultra-rare irons. And what provenance! most of them
came from the Nininger Collection, bought by ASU in 1960. Yes, all of them are small, or
tiny pieces, but that makes them affordable!. Some are now gone, but there are still quite
a few available. Please take a look at the list below. Some very rare ones are
still available.

Click
on the name to see the picture. Weight and price of each piece is on the picture

Mass of 21kg found in 1912 near Moon
Lake in Wasatch Mtns, N-E Utah, recognized as a meteorite and acquired by Nininger in
1933. Still had some fusion crust but one face had been severely hammered and re-heated.
From Nininger Collection, cut from ASU specimen #168.

Mass of 27 Kg found in north central
Arizona in 1901. Studied by Buchwald and Wasson who called it a transported Canyon Diablo,
but it is unshocked so it was found in the plain around the crater. Cut from ASU specimen
#717, but only 218g in ASU collection.

Mass of 33kg found before 1888 in
Sierra de San Francisco, near Santiago Papasquiero, Mexico. Acquired by H.A. Ward who cut
it and then sold part of it to Nininger. From Nininger Collection, cut from ASU specimen
#266.

Mass of 24.5kg found in 1903 during
farm work in Christian Co. Missouri. Was exhibited in a street fair and got first prize as
iron ore. Part of it was then forged in horseshoes, nails. Eventually was recognized
and bought by Ward. Cut from ASU specimen #151.

Mass of 3.3kg plowed up in 1918 in
Western Nebraska, recognized and acquired in 1930 by Nininger who described it in his
Catalogue as well preserved, with some fusion crust but with clear signs of having been
re-heated. Cut from ASU specimen #90.1.

Mass of 19kg found before 1931 in
Antofagasta province, Chile, sold by the finder to the Smithsonian. Examined by Nininger
(1939), Wasson (1968) and later Buchwald who concluded it is similar to other hexahedrites
found in No. Chile. Cut from ASU specimen #387.1

Mass of 10.4kg found near Spearman,
Texas in 1934, according to Nininger who acquired it, and distributed the slices. V.
Buchwald classified it as a shock-hardened medium Octahedrite, transitional between
classes IIIA and IIIB. Cut from ASU specimen #230.3